Past Visitor
Edward Tenner
Affiliation
Program in Interdisciplinary Studies
Field of Study
History of Science and Technology
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Edward Tenner is studying the history of risks, voluntary and involuntary, since the early twentieth century, extending earlier work on the Titanic shipwreck and its unintended consequences. In particular, Tenner is exploring the relationships among disasters (and averted disasters) and the paradoxes of preparedness, in light of Covid-19.
Dates at IAS
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Program in Interdisciplinary Studies
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School of Social Science
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Degrees
University of Chicago
Ph.D.
1972
Princeton University
A.B.
1965
Honors
1991
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
Appointments
Lemelson Center, Smithsonian Institution
2016–2020
Distinguished Scholar
Rutgers University
2009–2020
Visiting Scholar
Princeton University Press
1975–1991
Science Editor/ Executive Editor
Princeton University
1990
Visiting Lecturer (Associate Professor)